XTech 2005 (formerly XML Europe), has added the following sessions for this year's conference, slated for May 24-27 at the Amsterdam RAI Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands:
* "Open Street Maps and Spatial Data," Jo Walsh, Co-Author, "Mapping Hacks," United Kingdom
* "BBC News and RSS, Or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Open Data Services," Joel Chippindale, Software Engineer and Kevin Hinde, Head of Technical Development, BBC News Interactive, United Kingdom
* "XHTML2: Accessible, Usable, Device-Independent, and Semantic," Steven Pemberton, Senior Researcher, W3C/CWI, Netherlands and Mark R. Birbeck, CEO and CTO, x-port.net Ltd., United Kingdom
* "WHATWG: Proposing Extensions to HTML4 and the DOM," Ian Hickson, Standards Development, Opera Software, ASA, Norway
* "Xfy Technology: Making the Most of XML in Enterprise Client Software," Jeff Bennett, Principal Systems Designer, Justsystem Corporation, Japan
* "Web Services-Based Syndication Protocol for Valued Content," Dianne Kennedy, VP Publishing Technologies, IDEAlliance, United States
* "Dynamic Topic Maps Using Web Service Interfaces," Eric Freese, Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis, United States
Those interested in attending can visit http://www.xtech-conference.org
